D C Ross is a Dunedin, NZ based engineering and manufacturing firm.
The company works in the following areas:
Supplying finished, semi finished and assembled fine blanked components and assemblies
Manufacturing and servicing high precision fine blank tooling, conventional sheet metal tooling
Carrying out precision and general engineering
OUR CUSTOMERS
New Zealand customers:
Fisher & Paykel Assa Abloy
Millers Mechanical Schneider Electrical
Pratt & Whitney NZ Government
International customers:
AI Ltd. Adelaide Cooper Standard Adelaide
AI Ltd. Victoria APV Systems Melbourne
Drivetrain Systems Albury FMP Ballarat
Bosch Australia Melbourne, South Carolina, Thailand
Delphi Chassis systems Ohio, Shanghai
FINE BLANKING & STAMPING
Our press shop operates three 320 Tonne and two 250 Tonne Fine Blank presses. We also operate several conventional presses up to 200 tonnes capacity. Work is done to customer order or schedule.
Processes available in the press shop include
Thermal stress relief
Vibratory deburring
Belt grinding / linishing (for burr removal)
Automated Velcro strip application
Component assembly
Finishing processes are subcontracted as required and coordinated from Dunedin (heat treating, corrosion protection, specialised packaging and delivery etc)
Contract toolmaking
Work performed includes the manufacture and servicing of fine blank and traditional sheet metal tooling, injection mould tooling, jigs, fixtures, gauges and general engineering work.
CNC machining: milling, EDM wirecut, deep hole drilling and production machining.
Manually operated machining: manual lathe and milling work, electro discharge spark eroder, jig grinder, cylindrical grinding, surface grinding and a Heinrich Schmid precision copy mill. Used for hard machining features on 60RC dieplates.
HEAT TREATING & WAREHOUSING
High volume heat treatment is undertaken at Metal Treatment Services in Melbourne. Other available processes include shot peening and post heat treat honing. In order to Kanban supply our components to Australian customers we have a warehouse facility at Metal Treatment Services. Parts can be sorted, repackaged and supplied to the customers requirements. A notable feature is a vision inspection machine used to check part identity and shape when 100% inspection is called for. Delivery methods include bulk supply, kanban, on consignment and on a Just in time basis. In emergency cases, we can air freight components directly to our customers. In North America our parts are distributed from Chara Freight, Ohio, USA
STANDARDS WE WORK TO
D C Ross Dunedin is accredited to the ISO 9000:2002 Quality Standard. We are currently working to achieve the automotive TS16949 standard. We were recertified for ISO 14000 environmental accreditation in 2006.
Metal Treatment Services is accredited to TS16949 and operates a testing laboratory for their heat treating.
We use a Browne and Sharpe coordinate measuring machine to measure components and for PPAP inspection reports.
